
GOP governors walk balance beam on health law
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market.

College student's turtle project takes dark twist
Clemson University student Nathan Weaver set out to determine how to help turtles cross the road. He ended up getting a glimpse into the dark souls ...

BMW at 20: Plant exceeds hopes, tax debate ongoing
Two decades ago, then-South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell stood at the Greenville-Spartanburg airport and announced that a BMW plant being built just ...

Ex-SC Gov Sanford eyes politics again after affair
When Mark Sanford walked out of the governor's mansion in 2011, he had been censured by the Legislature over state travel expenses he used for an ...
Hearing on voting rights turns partisan
Senate Democrats and Republicans sparred Wednesday over whether voter ID laws, attempts to purge voter rolls and restricted early voting were ...
Latest winners of Carnegie Hero medals
Winners of Carnegie Hero medals awarded Wednesday: — Christopher M. Johnson, 20, of Bolingbrook, Ill., helped save teenage boy who broke through the ...

Scott plays up modest background, downplays race
To U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, keeping his modest upbringing in the front of his mind has helped guide his swift ascent in South Carolina's business and ...

Rep. Tim Scott picked to replace DeMint in Senate
Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Rep. Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate on Monday, making him the South's first black Republican senator since Reconstruction in ...

GOP official: SC Gov Haley to tap Scott for Senate
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has chosen Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate, a move that will make him the first African-American ...
Laclede Group to buy 2 Southern Union utilities
Laclede will buy two of Southern Union Co.'s utilities, Missouri Gas Energy and New England Gas Co., for $1.02 billion. Energy Transfer Equity's ...

Military families worried by US fiscal cliff cuts
Emerging from more than a decade at war, military families are confronting a new worry at home: the prospect that a deal between Congress and the ...

Feds to probe why alarms failed in W.Va. explosion
Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and ...

No. 2 Alabama places 4 on AP All-America team
Alabama is No. 1 when it comes to All-Americans. The second-ranked Crimson Tide placed four players on The Associated Press All-America team released ...

SC Gov. Haley shuts door on Colbert for US Senate
South Carolina's governor appears to have closed the door on appointing Stephen Colbert to the U.S. Senate, all because the comedian didn't know the ...

Analysis: DeMint move defies GOP shift to center
The surprise job change by the Senate's most prominent tea partyer will complicate Republican moderates' bid to nudge their party toward the center ...

Port strike could be prelude for dockworker talks
The end of one labor crisis at the nation's busiest port complex could be a prelude to another. The resolution of an eight-day walk-off by clerical ...

Romney's big loss leaves GOP with no clear leader
Mitt Romney's shadow looms over a Republican Party in disarray. The face of the GOP for much of the last year, the failed presidential candidate has ...

Mitt Romney's loss creates GOP leadership vacuum
Mitt Romney's shadow looms over a Republican Party in disarray. The face of the GOP for much of the last year, the failed presidential candidate has ...

No. 13 South Carolina wins 4th straight in rivalry
South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney gave Clemson even more to worry about a short time after he finished demolishing the Tigers on the field